First Spring PAC meeting Sunday, April 3rd at 1:00PM!

Hey anime fans! Did you like how we rolled at MegaCon!? We hope you had fun! We have a bunch to wrap up in regards to that but we do want to get back to showing off some cool anime! Our first meeting of the Spring quarter will be on Sunday, April 3rd at 1PM at Full Sail University in FS3F-112 in Building 3F! (Near Wendy's)

For those who've never been to a PAC meeting, it's free and we watch a bunch of anime and have some lively discussions about what we watch. Since MegaCon just finished, there will be much to discuss about the weekend. We show several on-going series, followed by a feature to wrap up the meeting in an awesome way!

Speaking of features, we will be showing the first movie Hayao Miyazaki ever directed, and that will be Castle of Cagliostro! It stars the cast of Lupin III going for another caper that deals with an evil baron and his plans to produce high quality counterfeit bills from all the major nations, all while forcefully marrying a girl that has caught Lupin's eye!

But that is not all! We start watching three series this meeting! We have the fantasy classic, Record of Lodoss War, which is essentially a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Then there is Gainax's stylish mecha classic Gunbuster, and then we have a newer series that fans of Baccano! should like in Durarara!!

Created by Baccano's Ryohgo Barita, Durarara!! is about a dullahan working as an underworld courier in Ikebukuro, Japan, an internet-based anonymous gang called Dollars, and the chaos that unfolds around the most dangerous people in Ikebukuro.

Planned Schedule

1:00PM - Introductions and MegaCon discussion

1:15PM - Record of Lodoss War 1 & 2

2:05PM - Gunbuster 1 & 2
3:10PM - Intermission (This means hang out, get food, etc.)

3:35PM - Durarara!! 1 & 2

4:25PM - Castle of Cagliostro

As always, feel free to come in forever you want to see! We have a lot of great stuff lined up! Also, check out our next Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy!

We'll be at MegaCon! Follow us on Twitter @PropellerAnime!

MegaCon is coming up this weekend and it will be an exciting time! We'll be hosting contests, events, and panels all weekend. Look for us in the W224 rooms or at our table in front of W224B. We look forward to see many fans and hopefully some cool, new members that can attend our meetings!

Speaking of which, our next meeting will be Sunday, April 3rd at 1:00PM at Full Sail University. Room and building location to be announced next week. We'll be starting three new series: Gunbuster, Record of Lodoss War, and Durarara!! We will also decide which night we will see REDLINE at the Florida Film Festival!

But that's not all! At the end of each meeting, we show a feature. This time, it will be Hayao Miyazaki's directorial debut, Castle of Cagliostro! It's certainly one of those movies every anime fan should see and a great way to start off the new quarter schedule.

We hope you have at MegaCon or are having fun at MegaCon if you are seeing this over the weekend! Please follow us on twitter @PropellerAnime since that is where updates on our events will be posted this weekend.

Next club meeting on Sunday, January 23rd!

That first meeting of this year was pretty awesome! Our next meeting will be on Sunday, January 23rd at 3:00PM in FS3F-111! Our feature will be Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's Porco Rosso! Actually, the original title of the movie translates to Crimson Pig. Yup! Just like the name of the room we did Skies of Orlandia in at Anime Festival Orlando last year!

Also featured are more of Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage, Cromartie High School, and Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team. So that means gunfights with incest vampires, Gundam ambushed by guerilla Zakus, and more tough guy humor featuring the introduction of Cromartie's most feared student!

We'll also have news about MegaCon, dodgeball versus Anime Spot, and a future event we will be doing with a new ally!

Planned Schedule

3:00PM - Introduction and News

3:20PM - Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team

4:15PM - Cromartie High School

5:05PM - Intermission

5:30PM - Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage

6:25PM - Porco Rosso

Don't forget that we have dodgeball team tryouts on the 16th, GANTZ on the 20th, and Orlando Anime Day on the 22nd. Man, what a busy month!



Next Propeller Anime Club meeting on Sunday, September 12th!

The next Propeller Anime Club meeting is this Sunday, September 12th in FS3F at Full Sail University!  The room has not been decided yet. The room hasn't been picked yet but it will be one that doesn't smell funny and will have working A/V. I'll have a room ready by 3pm so meet in the lobby or look around! It will either be FS3F-112, FS3F-113, FS3F-114, or somewhere nearby.

Building FS3F is in the same parking lot as FS3B. It's in the brick building facing perpendicular to FS3B. The reason for the building change is because Full Sail is hosting an open house during the day and will be using FS3B.

We had a meeting yesterday, but doesn't mean that there will be a meeting every week. In fact, the extra meeting means that all series in our schedule can be finished by the last meeting of the year! This means when the new year starts, all series shown will be new, starting at the first episode!

So in short, the next meeting will be this Sunday, September 12th at 3pm in a room near the entrance of FS3F!

Our feature showing will be Studio Ghibli's My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. You may have seen Totoro make an appearance in Pixar's Toy Story 3. Now you can see Totoro in the movie that made him famous!

We'll be showing episodes 3 and 4 of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0. Mirai and Yuki are trying to make it home, if there is one still there. Did the earthquake level it? What dangers will they face along the way!? Both children had almost died multiple times already so we shall see!

In episodes 5 and 6 of Black Lagoon, the Lagoon company have a showdown with neo-Nazis in a WWII German U-Boat. If you remember from last episode, Revy was given a weapon to take with her...

In episodes 9 and 10 of Samurai 7, the six samurai continue their journey to Kirara's village and split into groups to work their way there. But shouldn't there be a seventh samurai!?

Things will be cooking this Sunday! Hopefully a couple of new graduates can make it to the meeting so we can all give congratulations!

Tales of Earthsea on 8/15, next Propeller Anime Club meeting on Sunday, August 22nd!

Anime Festival Orlando 11 was a wild ride! A lot of fun was had this weekend! Thank you for attending our events! We've been resting the past few days and now it's time to get together again for some more fun!



This Sunday afternoon, we shall see the first Goro Miyazaki(the son of legend Hayao Miyazaki) film, Tales of Earthsea. Showtimes aren't up yet but we will probably meet at a local Regal Cinema between 12pm and 2pm. Check back this Friday for the final time!

The next Propeller Anime Club meeting will be on Sunday, August 22nd. We will be finishing Baccano! Since Gungrave has ended(with generally mixed feelings about the series) we shall start Black Lagoon! I'm trying to remember what the feature was supposed to be. We'll find out soon!

Also, since we've spent a lot of time on AFO, it's time to focus on the club and discuss our future! Very important! The time of the meeting will be at 1:00pm in FS3B-113 at Full Sail University! See you all there!

No Ham for you Ponyo!

The Oscar Nominations have been announced! Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea(or just Ponyo, thanks to Disney) did not get nominated for Best Animated Feature Film. Instead, Up, The Princess and the Frog, Caroline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The Secret of Kells received nods from the Academy Awards.

We saw Ponyo together in theaters with Anime Sushi last year and while it was a fun movie and visually interesting, I think many of us agreed that it did not have the overall impact that many of Miyazaki's movies have.

Spirited Away won the Oscar for Best Animated feature back in 2003 and Howl's Moving Castle was nominated in 2006. Anime News Network reports that the CG adaption of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy was submitted along with Ponyo to be considered for nominations but neither made the final five.

ANN also reported that Ponyo did not make the nominations for animated feature film for the Golden Globes but nobody cares.

So what does this mean? Simply, animated features have become high-profile over in theaters over the years and even Miyazaki will have to step up his game. Fear not though, because with works like The Girls Who Lept Through Time and Summer Wars under his belt, Mamoru Hosada could possibly take the anime film industry into a great new era!

Next meeting: Sunday, October 25th at 2:00 p.m. THREE YEARS!

I am excited and very proud to announce our third anniversary club meeting for this Sunday, October 25th at 2:00 p.m. in FS3B-113! We won't do anything too fancy; we'll show some cool anime, share stories of our exploits at conventions and club outings, and enjoy some snacks and sweets!

That's right! I'm bringing cake! And other goodies! (Feel free to bring stuff if you can!)

We'll be showing episodes 8 & 9 of Guin Saga, which is probably the single best anime of this year. Not only that, we'll be showing episodes 3 & 4 of Gungrave and Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky!

Now for those who haven't been to the club as of late, you may not see this as fun. But meeting as of late have turned into little anime parties that are highly entertaining! Let me put it this way: Do you like anime? Do you like hanging out with cool people? Do you want to make good friends? If you answered "yes" to all those questions, then you definitely want to come to the meeting this Sunday!